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Re: gzip: stdout: Input/output error
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: gzip: stdout: Input/output error |
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:01:22 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Eduardo Hernández <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello, I was backing up my system with tar and gzip, the backup is
> succesful but when I try to decompress the tar file I got this
> Input/output error.
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> Any sugestions?
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> gzip version: 1.3.3
> tar version: 1.13.25
It sounds like you have a hardware problem, and that it's not gzip's
fault. You might try using "dd" to read the backup device (sending
the output to /dev/null) and see what "dd" has to say about it.